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Category: Grand Rounds
And again, I point you to this week's Pediatric Grand Rounds. There's a great series on vaccines mentioned there, if you're into that sort of thing (and I know you are)....
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Signout is hospital slang for the transfer of information between patient care teams. It is also the name of this blog, which represents one of the less dysfunctional ways in which Dr. Signout copes with her participation in a U.S. medical residency program.
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December 26, 2006
Squeak
Category: Grand Rounds
Now up: this week's Grand Rounds, into which I've again managed to squeak. This week: bloggers' best-of....
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December 25, 2006
True meaning of Christmas
Category: Hematology-Oncology
I'm an M.O.T., so for me, Christmas, meh. It's just kind of another day. I'm neither especially cranky about having to work nights through the holiday, nor is my heart filled with the dazzling light of yuletide joy. But last...
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December 22, 2006
Home on paper
Category: Scut Monkey
Deep inside, in the part of me that is not an intern, I am happy for patients when they get to leave the hospital. But the rest of me-especially the part that operates computers and makes phone calls-seethes.
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December 19, 2006
But enough about me
Category: Grand Rounds
Most of you know I'm not the only one writing about the medical profession out here in the blogosphere. This week, I'm honored to be in the company of many excellent medical bloggers at two weekly, appropriately named anthologies: Grand...
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December 15, 2006
It can't just be me
Category: Adolescent Medicine
After the thighs are gone and the belly is flat, it's about seeing the scale needle continue to move downward; demonstrating how much control you really have; putting one over on your stupid parents; proving yourself a winner at something.
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December 11, 2006
As ornithology is to birds
Category: Research
I am not a neuropsychiatrist, and UCSF isn't exactly tugging at my sleeve to offer me a job. However, I cannot understand how a person with any exposure to medical science can comprehend this little about its advancement.
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December 4, 2006
Assign a value of zero
Category: Developmental Delay
During my first week of medical school, we watched a video that documented the life and death of a child diagnosed in utero with neurologically devastating spina bifida. The girl's parents had been aware of her prognosis long before her...
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